Darrell C. Scott

Pastor Darrell Scott was a Cleveland Heights Protestant reverend who was a major supporter of Donald Trump in the 2016 elections. In the 1980s, he left a life of drugs and turned to religion, joining the US Republican Party and being involved with the New Spirit Revival Center Ministries as a pastor; he owned a gospel radio station. At the Republican National Convention on 20 July 2016, Scott said, "the greater America is, the greater that the entire world becomes", and he said that he gave Trump the label "patriot" instead of "populist", saying that liberals believed that the United States is a nation like every other and do not like the word "populist". He was used to gain African-Americans' support for Trump, and he gave a fiery speech at the RNC that criticized minority unemployment, civil unrest, national distress, and drug use, endorsing Trump.